Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Musings on Jul 14th, 2009
I’ve been terribly slow in updating here recently (Blogs are dead! Long live Twitter!), but I wanted to announce that I started a new job at the University of Michigan Library in May, and am no longer the Library’s copyright specialist. My new title is Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries. It’s a fancy [...]
Posted in Open Access on Mar 30th, 2009
As most of you already know, last week was Open Access Week at the University of Michigan Library. It was a great series of events, and I’m very happy with how it all came together. Audio recordings of some of the events will be available soon for those who are interested, and I’ll post links [...]
Posted in Open Access on Mar 4th, 2009
I have been working with an excellent team of librarians here at Michigan to plan a week of events related to open access and the future of scholarship. We’re calling it Open Access Week. Clever, no?
It’s less than three weeks away, and as the schedule has come together I’m struck by how timely these [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism on Feb 19th, 2009
From time to time Creative Commons highlights organizations that have adopted CC licenses to provide case studies of how the licenses work in different settings. It’s called the Featured Commoners series. This week CC is featuring the University of Michigan Library. Yay!
I like the Featured Commoner series because I think it’s helpful for people who [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism, Libraries on Oct 16th, 2008
I am thrilled to report that the University of Michigan Library has adopted Creative Commons licenses for Library-produced content.
From the press release:
The University of Michigan Library is adopting Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights. These works include [...]
